Branstad campaign: 'It starts today'

2:50 PM,
Jul. 8, 2013

This is the picture the Branstad-Reynolds campaign posted on Twitter this afternoon, July 8, 2013

Written by

Jennifer Jacobs
Des Moines Register

In an email today, Republican Gov. Terry Branstad said his campaign team will do unprecedented work as they strategize for his re-election in 2014.

"Over the coming weeks and months," Branstad said in a mass email to supporters from his campaign account, "you will hear from our campaign team as they begin voter contact, outreach and community recruitment in a way no other Republican in Iowa has done before."

His campaign committee announced the hires of four campaign staffers. "Though a final decision and formal announcement won't come until next year, we must be ready to hit the ground ...